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Tara Fitzgerald (born September 18, 1967 in Sussex) is an English actress most widely known for her film roles in Sirens (opposite Hugh Grant) and the 1996 film Brassed Off. September 18 is the 261st day of the year (262nd in leap years). ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... Sussex is a traditional county in South East England corresponding roughly in area to the ancient Kingdom of Sussex. ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London (de facto) Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification    - by Athelstan AD 927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq mi  Population    - 2006 est. ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke while waiting between takes during location filming An actor is a person who acts, or plays a role, in a dramatic production. ... Sirens is a 1994 film written and directed by John Duigan and set in Australia between the two World Wars. ... Hugh John Mungo Grant (born September 9, 1960 in London, England) is an English actor. ... This is a list of film-related events in 1996. ... Brassed Off (1996) is a British film written and directed by Mark Herman. ...


She has had numerous roles on British television, including Six Characters in Search of an Author, The Camomile Lawn, The Vacillations Of Poppy Carew, and beginning in 2007, Waking the Dead. In her early television appearances in particular, she gained a reputation for appearing nude or semi-nude. British television broadcasting has a range of different broadcasters, broadcasting multiple channels over a variety of distribution media. ... Six Characters in Search of an Author (Sei personaggi in cerca dautore) is the most famous play of Italian playwright Luigi Pirandello. ... Produced by Channel 4 Television Corporation in 1992 this was a vivid and lively television drama of wartime London and Cornwall as seen through the eyes of five cousins. ... Waking The Dead is a British television crime drama series produced by the BBC featuring a team of CID police officers. ... Publicity photograph of Audrey Munson from The American Film Company c1916. ...


Her stage roles have included Blanche Dubois in an Bristol Old Vic 2000 production of A Streetcar Named Desire, and Ophelia (opposite Ralph Fiennes) in a 1995 production of Hamlet; for the latter she won a New York Drama Critics Circle Best Supporting Actress Award. The Coopers Hall (right) became the theatre foyer in the 1970s. ... A Streetcar Named Desire is a famous American play written by Tennessee Williams for which he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1948. ... Ophelia is a female character from Hamlet by William Shakespeare. ... Ralph Fiennes in Spider. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke, more commonly known as Hamlet is a tragedy by William Shakespeare and is one of his best-known and most-quoted plays. ...


She was paired with Grant again in The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain, and also had major roles in New World Disorder and the film adaptation of Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle. The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain is a 1995 movie written by Ivor Monger and directed by Christopher Monger. ... Dorothy Gladys Dodie Smith (May 3, 1896 - November 24, 1990) was an English novelist and playwright. ... I Capture the Castle was the first novel written by Dodie Smith, published in 1948. ...


Her nude appearances in Sirens prompted a listing on the first FHM list of the 100 Sexiest Women in the World. The cover of an issue of FHM China, featuring Britney Spears, wearing a bathing suit & necktie The cover of the first issue of FHM in the United States, featuring Rachael Leigh Cook FHM is an international monthly lads mag. ...


She is also a smoker.


Personal Information

  • Shortly after her birth, her family moved to Freeport, in the Bahamas.
  • Her mother Sarah Fitzgerald is Irish and her father, Michael Callaby, was English.
  • Her grandfather, David Fitzgerald, was a well-established lawyer.
  • Her great-aunt is Geraldine Fitzgerald.
  • Her sister Arabella was born in the Bahamas in 1968, but the family returned to London when Tara was 3.
  • Her mother and father separated when she was four years old, and along with her mother and sister, Tara moved in with her Uncle Oliver and Aunt Caroline in a basement flat off the Old Brompton Road in Kensington.
  • Her mother married the Irish actor Norman Rodway when Tara was six, and the birth of her half sister, Bianca, followed shortly thereafter.
  • She was mugged at knifepoint a week after her West End debut in Our Song opposite Peter O'Toole.
  • She married John Sharian, her co-star in A Streetcar Named Desire, in 2001, but they separated in May, 2003.

Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London (de facto) Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification    - by Athelstan AD 927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq mi  Population    - 2006 est. ... Geraldine Fitzgerald Geraldine Fitzgerald (24 November 1913 - 17 July 2005) was an Irish-American actress. ... // West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre in London, or sometimes more specifically for shows staged in the large theatres of Londons Theatreland . Along with New Yorks Broadway Theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of theatre in the... Peter Seamus OToole (born Peter James OToole on August 2, 1932) is an acclaimed eight-time Academy Award-nominated Irish actor best known for his performances in such films as Lawrence of Arabia, Becket, The Lion in Winter, My Favorite Year, and, more recently, Venus. ...

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